Kinesiotaping and Post-dry Needling Soreness

Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mechanical Neck Pain

Treatments: Other: Placebo; Other: Kinesiotaping

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03545880

URJC 2018-12

Details and patient eligibility

About

Application of trigger point dry needling can induce post-dry needling soreness. This is not a negative experience, but sometimes some patients want to reduce it as much as possible. Different therapeutic strategies targeting to decrease post-dry needling soreness need to be investigated. Since Kinesiotaping has been advocated for decreasing tone in the muscle tissues, it would be a potential intervention for this objective.

Enrollment: 32 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Generalized neck-shoulder pain with symptoms provoked by neck postures, neck movement, or palpation of the cervical musculature

Exclusion criteria

• any contraindication to dry needling
• whiplash injury;
• previous cervical surgery;
• cervical radiculopathy or myelopathy;
• diagnosis of fibromyalgia syndrome;
• having undergone any therapy intervention for the neck are in the previous 6 months;
• fear to needles;
• less than 18 or greater than 65 years of age.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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32 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Kinesiotaping

Experimental group

Description:

A Kinesiotaping will be provided over the upper trapezius muscle after the application of dry needling

Treatment:

Other: Kinesiotaping

Placebo

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Individuals will not perform any action after the application of trigger point dry needling

Treatment:

Other: Placebo